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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:13 - 5:13
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withal - “at the same time, moreover.”
learn - usually in a good sense. But these women’s “learning” is idleness, trifling, and busybodies’ tattle.
wandering - Greek, “going about.”
from house to house - of the members of the Church (2Ti 3:6). “They carry the affairs of this house to that, and of that to this; they tell the affairs of all to all” [Theophylact].
tattlers - literally “trifling talkers.” In 3Jo 1:10, translated “prating.”
busybodies - mischievously busy; inconsiderately curious (2Th 3:11). Act 19:19, “curious,” the same Greek. Curiosity usually springs from idleness, which is itself the mother of garrulity [Calvin].
speaking - not merely “saying.” The subject-matter, as well as the form, is involved in the Greek word [Alford].
which they ought not - (Tit 1:11).